If you view God as an oppressor then you should throw away your view altogether, because then it makes reality seem judgmental and cruel.

Jesus taught that receiving God's compassion is the balm that relieves our sores. And we thus bypass judgement as we leave all of our judgement to
God, even the judgement of ourselves.

As we look forward to the future we forget what is happening right now. If we think of what has happened in the past we also take away from reality.
Reality is the moment where we sense everything to be happening.

Everything is perfect because everything is in the process of becoming more perfect.

I'm not going to lie, my words sometimes will not make sense because my words fall short of the truth. Silence tells of more than every word ever
spoken.

I don't feel like listing all the quotes that declare us to be unworthy creatures who are only fit to live by the grace of "God". If you
know your Bible at all, you know what I'm talking about.

I think I am pretty familiar with what the Bible says, but I don't know what you are
talking about, even in a general way.
Maybe you can mention one, other than the ones I took apart in a recent post on another thread.
"Grace", I believe, is used to describe the gathering in or 'election' of those to be in God's religious community to learn to be like God in caring
for everyone regardless of their current status in this worldly life.

Do you mean the "One" besides the other gods who maybe aren't so
'infinite'?
I, for one, don't exactly share the enthusiasm many have to create this picture of a universe completely controlled by a single entity who transcends
the material in a unique way.
The word, universe, does have this sort of designating of an elevated status, this uniqueness and all-inclusiveness that transcends the existence of
mere matter, where 'matter' is something thought of as a collection of so many bits of matter.
Despite all those wonderful attributes and 'oneness', it is still a created 'thing' and not God, or 'infinite' since it had a beginning. Religion, or
philosophy, or science, all tell us that it will also have an end. The point being, don't worship it, regardless of how powerful it may appear to be.
That 'power' it has but it is not a power of and in itself.

Humility is like knowing that you are only a single particle in the infinite ocean of life.

Too much focus on our 'littleness' is not
true humility in my opinion because it sort of trivializes God, where by "God", I mean the being or beings who take the trouble to notice our
existence and find it important enough to do something about it, i.e. humanity in general, and also on a microcosm level of the minutia of the
individual being in that mass of humanity.
God does that for a reason and it has to be, in my opinion, for the reason that we are just as 'infinite', only in a different way, as our existence
is in a different form than God's.

Who you call "a god" or "gods", I would simply call them immortals. "Immortals" are those who were born and have unending Life. Eternal is of One Who
has no beginning or an end.

But He who I begrudgingly label as "God", sustains the life of such "gods" who I would call saints.

God sustains all things and therefore makes everything perfect in its inferiority.
As a common man I just assume my role as a common man. I am no more of an immortal than you or he, until I actually know reality in full, but for now
my judgement is inferior and harmful, so through humility, I should not judge.

I am no more of an immortal than you or he, until I actually know reality in full, but for now my judgement is inferior and harmful, so
through humility, I should not judge.

Don't know who you mean by "he".
We are mortal, and also not god.
We need to be "sustained", as you said.
Part of that being sustained would be a degree of insight enough to make judgments on our own scale for things we need to know about in our lives.
Included in that, and fundamental to the sufficiency of such sustenance, would be a view only possible from outside ourselves, of who and what we are,
at least enough of that as we need for practical purposes such as developing hope and a value on what we do, and the value of the persons we interact
with.
That value is increased, I think, when we understand the eternal consequences of them, our actions, the people, and ourselves.

I enjoy your thoughts man, and I would like to make every effort to keep this conversation from becoming an argument.

With that said, the "he" which I mentioned would be any other self, person, or "mortal". We all need to be sustained and the idea that anything at
all is sustained concludes that Everything that Is, is through God's will and compassion. For if God disdained any particle of existence or non
existence, it would immediately cease to be.

"Part of that being sustained would be a degree of insight enough to make judgments on our own scale for things we need to know about in our
lives."

Yes, it is God's will that we have our own will and judgement, but to refine our will and judgement to be that of a child is to place ourselves in
the hands of the Father.

And instead of acting with the value we have towards other people, we act with the countenance God has towards them. We become clear like water to
allow the light to be magnified and shown through us.

Our consciousness is like a section of a body of water that has become cloudy. We must remain still very patiently so that all of the mud can settle
at the bottom.

Once clear each fragment of our being may be able to see the light clearly and increase it within each member, as water magnifies light.

No, because after this "returning", that I mentioned I feel an exuberance of newness and being, where I think not about myself, my flaws, my
imperfections and I feel acceptance and I accept the world in all of its flaws, imperfections, etc. and I feel like imperfection is perfect because it
is in the process of always becoming more perfect.

I no longer feel the need to judge myself or anything because I know that everything is how it is according to God's will. Then I think, "why fight
it," and feel a pleasant liberation.

If you view God as an oppressor then you should throw away your view altogether, because then it makes reality seem judgmental and cruel.

Ah, the old faith trick. You think the peace is found in deceiving oneself and ignoring the reality of your existence. I have greater
testicular fortitude than that. And quite honestly, I can think of a much better lie to tell myself.

Everything is perfect because everything is in the process of becoming more perfect.

How do you mean?

I'm not going to lie, my words sometimes will not make sense because my words fall short of the truth. Silence tells of more than every word
ever spoken.

No, because after this "returning", that I mentioned I feel an exuberance of newness and being, where I think not about myself, my flaws, my
imperfections and I feel acceptance and I accept the world in all of its flaws, imperfections, etc. and I feel like imperfection is perfect because it
is in the process of always becoming more perfect.

I no longer feel the need to judge myself or anything because I know that everything is how it is according to God's will. Then I think, "why fight
it," and feel a pleasant liberation.

How can a person even come to the point of repenting without first the conviction of the Holy Spirit?

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